Productivity tip #14: Lookout – hyperfast indexed search in Outlook

Here is my FAVORITE Outlook tool. Itâ€™s lightning fast indexed search that beats the pants off anything Microsoft has. Microsoft liked it so much, in fact, that they purchased the company, then killed the project completely. This paved the way for their horrible and criminally useless Desktop Search without any pesky competition to get in the way. Hooray!

Anyway, Lookout is the best email search tool ever devised. You can download Lookout here:

Once you have tons of email, youâ€™ll see why this rules so much. :) The flexibility, speed and ease of use is astounding. To give you a brief comparison, I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to make Microsoft Desktop Search manually index my email. After I figured that out, it took 30 hours to index fully. Within 30 minutes of installing Lookout, everything was set up and fully indexed. Lookout’s search is also ridiculously faster and easier to use. It’s the first thing I install with any new Outlook installation. Enjoy!

Anyone have any other handy Outlook plugins? I’ve been meaning to do a post on Xobni as well…

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Jon Jones is a veteran Art Producer and Outsourcing Manager in the video game industry with 35+ titles under his belt. He is currently based in New York City working for Epic Games as the Content Curator for the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Prior to that he was Outsourcing Art Manager at Avalanche Studios for the highly-anticipated Just Cause 3.

Jon's clients include Epic Games, Playdom, The Workshop, Riot Games, and Sony Online Entertainment, and he has worked with 2K Games, NCsoft, Vigil Games, and Ready At Dawn Studios.

His skillset, primarily focused on outsourcing, includes developing full-project art production plans, building and optimizing art pipelines, documenting and deploying technically complex proprietary tools and training external artists to use them, making schedules, creating budgets and managing large teams of artists of all disciplines.